Health & PE
Health & Fitness
Health and Fitness emphasizes the importance of knowledge, attitudes, and practices relating to personal health and fitness. It is a course designed to expose students to a broad range of issues and information relating to the various aspects of personal health, which include the physical, social, emotional, intellectual, and environmental aspects.
About the course
Course Overview
Health and Fitness emphasizes the importance of knowledge, attitudes, and practices relating to personal health and fitness. It is a course designed to expose students to a broad range of issues and information relating to the various aspects of personal health, which include the physical, social, emotional, intellectual, and environmental aspects.
Textbook: Health and Fitness© Excel Education Systems, Inc. - 2019
By the end of the course
Learning Objectives
- Demonstrate knowledge base for various aspects of personal health.
- Research various personal health related topics.
- Analyze, integrate and translate personal health information.
- Apply critical thinking in differentiating between health facts and myths.
- Apply knowledge gained and values clarified into personal health plan for the future.
Course contents
What You'll Study
Chapter 1: Course Resources - Introduction
Chapter 2: Healthy Decision Making
Chapter 3: Emotions, Self-Esteem, & Personality
Chapter 4: Managing Stress
Chapter 5: Mental Disorders & Suicide
Chapter 6 Family Relationships
Chapter 7 Developing Positive Peer Relationships
Chapter 8: Preventing Violence
Chapter 9: Food & Nutrition
Chapter 10: Making Healthy Food Choices
Chapter 11: Digestion & Excretion
Chapter 12: Movement & Coordination
Chapter 13: Cardiovascular & Respiratory Health
Chapter 14: Exercising & Fitness for Life
Chapter 15: Personal Care
Chapter 16: Alcohol
Chapter 17: Tobacco
Chapter 18: Preventing Drug Abuse
Chapter 19: Reproduction & Heredity
Chapter 20: From Pregnancy to Body to Child
Chapter 21: Adolescence & Adulthood
Chapter 22: The Study of Infectious Disease
Chapter 23: Sexually Transmitted Infections and AIDS
Chapter 24: Chronic Diseases & Disabilities
Chapter 25: Safeguarding the Public
Chapter 26: A Healthy Community & Environment
Chapter 27: Preventing Injuries
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